Winston Churchill succeeded in entering parliament in 1890 as a conservative MP and proved a controversial figure with a mind very much of his own. He changed sides to the Liberals and achieved office, eventually becoming Home Secretary in 1910. In 1911 he took charge in person when anarchists were cornered in a blazing building and shooting it out with Scots Guards. Later that year, Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty and used his great energy to spur on military reform, including naval aviation, tanks, and conversion from coal to oil. His involvement in the disastrous Gallipoli landings on the Dardanelles during World War I caused him to be demoted. He eventually resigned and rejoined the army, though still an MP, and served on the Western Front. In July 1917 Churchill became Minister of Munitions. After the war he served as Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air till 1921 when he was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies. He signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, establishing the Irish Free State. In the 1922 election he lost his seat and gradually moved back towards the Conservatives, gaining a seat in 1924. He succeed in his youthful ambition, to be appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, in 1924. He was advised to return Britain to the Gold Standard, and his usual energetic pursuit of what proved to be a wrong policy resulted in deflation, unemployment, and the miners’ strike, leading to the General Strike of 1926. The Conservatives lost the 1929 election and Churchill entered what he later termed his “wilderness years”. He had difficulty accepting the decline of the British Empire and spent much of his time writing the history of his famous ancestor, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Adolf Hitler, the Facist, German leader, now entered the scene and Churchill began to realize the danger as Germany rearmed. The then British PM, Neville Chamberlain, preferred appeasement of Hitler, and Churchill was ignored. When war broke out in 1939, Churchill returned to power as First Lord of the Admiralty. His call for a preemptive occupation of the neutral Norwegian iron-ore port of Narvik and Swedish iron mines was dismissed, allowing the Germans to seize them. When France was invaded in 1940, Chamberlain resigned and Churchill became Prime Minister of an all-party government. “quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts” – Winston Churchill William Clark writes regularly on proverbs and sayings in his Power up with Proverbs Blog http://clarkscript.com/blog/index.html Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=William_Clark
Related posts
The political unrest in the United States during the present period is significant, and as usual all Americans are told that they have a choice, between the lesser of two evils. Many are tired of such choices but others are “all in” and backing the candidate of their choice. Thus, the outcome of the election will mean a major change in power and direction for our great nation.
But, what if some of the fringe supports are emboldened by a win of a certain candidate or what if they protest if that candidate loses. We have often seen racially charged riots during major decisions in the past. Could this happen in a close US Election? Unfortunately, the answer is yes and let me explain why?
Related posts
The political future of India is being hotly debated in the current pre-election scenario with questions like “who will form the next government?” and “who will be the next prime minister of India?” being uppermost in everyone’s mind.
The question bothering me, however, is that “Is it really possible to answer such questions based on astrology for a country blessed with political volatility like that of India?” There are at least ten prospective prime ministerial candidates for the upcoming general elections, of which there are a few like Dr. Manmohan Singh, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi who nurture an unexpressed desire for the position. Some of the other possible contenders for the position include Sh. L.K. Advani, Sh. Narendra Modi, Smt. Mayawati, Sh. Sharad Pawar, Sh. Deve Gowda, Sh. Lalu Prasad Yadav, Sh. Ram Vilas Paswan.
Related posts
